Fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony

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The fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony in Bonn is an association-free student union at the university town of Bonn . It is facultative , it wears colors and unites students from the University of Bonn and other universities there.

Basic data
University location: Bonn , Germany
Founding: 12/01/1869
Association: association-free
Colours:

Boy band: black-white-crimson

Fuxenband: black-white-narrow black

Old man's band: orange-white-blue

Cap: light blue Bonn plate
Motto: "Honor, freedom, fatherland!"
Website: www.norddeutsche-niedersachsen.de
The connection house at Argelanderstraße 171

history

Today's fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony emerged from three student associations: The fraternity of the North German Bonn and the fraternity of Lower Saxony Bonn , the latter in turn formed by merging the fraternity Guestphalia Münster with the student union Normannia Bonn .

Fraternity of the North German Bonn

On December 1, 1869, six students in Bonn founded the initially non-colored and non-striking North German Association . By choosing a name, they wanted to express their support for the state unification of Germany , which began with the establishment of the North German Confederation in 1866/67 . In this way, the new federation underlined the claim, which has continued to this day, not only to be a connection to socializing and study support, but also to represent political goals.

The German War of 1866 had a wide range of effects on the student body and student associations, especially on the fraternities in Austria , but also on the country teams and the Wingolf . But the establishment of a student union with express reference to the almost simultaneous creation of the North German Confederation, combined with a corresponding naming, was a singular event.

This decision received important impulses from the historian Heinrich von Sybel , then a professor in Bonn and, as a student of Leopold von Rankes, the founder of modern history.

From 1884 the members of the contributed Norddeutsche connection colors and fought from 1886 Bestimmungsmensuren . In 1901 the company bought its own corporation house at Lisztstrasse 16.

With the occupation of Bonn by the English at the end of 1918 and the entry ban for all visitors and students on the right bank of the Rhine, federal operations were largely maintained in Göttingen with the support of the Holzminda fraternity . Nevertheless, as early as 1919, long-term considerations as to which association one wanted to join came to an end with the admission to the German Burschenschaft , renaming it to the North German Burschenschaft .

The occupation of the Rhineland by the French in 1923 again forced Aktivitas to move into exile, this time for two semesters in Marburg to the Alemannia fraternity there .

After the French troops left Bonn in 1926, they moved into a new house at Argelanderstraße 171 during the brief heyday of the Weimar Republic in 1928 , which was specially built for the needs of a student association and is still available today.

The time of National Socialism brought internal tensions about the path to be taken. In 1935 the German fraternity was forced to dissolve itself. In order to be able to continue the connection, the North Germans decided to transform it into a comradeship . In 1938 it was named Kameradschaft Aegidienberg . This comradeship was joined by a large number of old men from the Germania gymnastics association, which was also forcibly dissolved, and the Lower Saxony fraternity .

The camaraderie continued until the winter of 1944/45. With the invasion of the Allies, the house was confiscated and first used by the American and then by the Belgian military .

On February 22, 1949, it was decided to merge with the Atlantia student union founded in 1947 , and so the union was reactivated. In the same year the merger with the old rulers of the Lower Saxony fraternity took place , whereupon the name was changed to the North German and Lower Saxony fraternity .

Fraternity Guestphalia Münster

After a new professorship was established, the Romance Association was founded on January 27, 1877 in Münster to promote specialist studies. In 1879, the association co-founded the Cartell Association of New Philological Associations at German Universities, the first association of student philological associations. After several changes, this association ultimately became part of the German Association of Scientists .

Twenty years after it was founded, the association took the name Guestphalia and chose the colors "orange-white-light blue", which were not worn in public. In 1920 there was a complete reorientation. Couleur was put on and determinations were fought. The following year he was accepted into the German fraternity .

In order to gain weight and become financially more efficient, Guestphalia moved to Bonn in 1931 to merge with the Normannia student union .

Student union Normannia Bonn

On June 1, 1886, a regulars' table of Düsseldorf students came together and in the following semester, on January 20, 1887, founded the Academic Association Normannia with the non-public colors "violet-white-black".

In 1892 the name was changed to Academic Student Union Normannia , and appointment censorship was introduced. From 1906, compulsory grades were struck. But it remained with the black principle , not wearing colors in public. Two years later, Normannia was a co-founder of the Black Association , later the Rothenburg Association of Black Associations . In 1925, the association bought its own house at 30 Thomastraße.

Since non-colored associations became increasingly unpopular, Normannia left the previous association in 1930, but was unable to join one of the large arms associations. It therefore merged in 1931 with the Guestphalia Münster fraternity, which had moved to Bonn, to form the Lower Saxony fraternity .

Fraternity of Lower Saxony Bonn

The fraternity, formed in 1931 from the merger of the Münsteraner Guestphalen and the Bonn Normans, was not granted a long life. In 1936, under pressure from the Nazi regime, they briefly changed into a comradeship , but were suspended in the same year .

Fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony

The 1949 from the merger of fraternity Norddeutsche and the fraternity of Lower Saxony resultant compound was one in 1950 to the re-founders of the German fraternity. In the same year she was able to move back into the house that had been vacated by the occupying forces.

She was elected chairman of the German Burschenschaft twice, in 1956/57 and 1980/81, and repeatedly held offices in the association.

In February 2012 she left the umbrella organization of the German fraternity due to irreconcilable differences in fundamental political issues. Since then it has been a non-union fraternity in the tradition of the fraternity movement of 1815 .

Color and motto

The North Germans and Lower Saxony wear the colors of the North Germans "black-white-crimson" - the colors of the North German Confederation founded as a German federal state in 1866 - with silver percussion . The cap is light blue in plate format (Bonner Teller) with a white protrusion and cap edge in the federal colors. The foxes wear the colors “black-white-narrow-black”, the old men also wear a second band in the colors “orange-white-light blue” with silver percussion - the Lower Saxony band. The motto is “ Honor, Freedom, Fatherland !”.

Known members

  • Friedrich Bottler (1870–1922), Lord Mayor of Bonn, the Bottlerplatz in Bonn is named after him
  • Hans-Günther Goslar (1918–2000), professor and director of the Anatomical Institute at the University of Düsseldorf
  • Albert Heising (1857–1929), district administrator in the Ahrweiler district
  • Karl Huppertz (1847–1919), Go. Government councilor , professor at the Agricultural University in Poppelsdorf
  • Otto Kamp (1850–1922), teacher, writer and poet
  • Hermann Körting (1844–1913), professor of Romance studies at the Universities of Münster and Kiel
  • Georg Lindemann (1885–1961), social democratic municipal civil servant in Hanover, lawyer, city councilor, mayor and city director
  • Rüdiger Lorenz (1932–2008), professor and director of the neurosurgical clinic at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  • Max Löcke (1850–1936), mayor and honorary citizen of Arnsberg
  • Arno Schantz (1904–1942), professor in the law faculty of the University of Frankfurt am Main
  • Rudolf Strauch (1929–2019), journalist, chairman of the Federal Press Conference, deputy editor-in-chief of the HAZ
  • Karl Tanzeglock (1902–1983), District Administrator of the Tecklenburg and Steinfurt districts
  • Wilhelm Wöll (1871–1926), Governor of Prussia. Hesse-Nassau Province
  • Walther Wüllenweber (1860–1941), Go. Government councilor, provincial school councilor, local politician in Berlin

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - their representations in individual chronicles, WJK, Hilden 2005, ISBN 978-3-933892-97-3 . P. 70.
  • Max Droßbach and Hans Hauske (eds.): Handbook for the German fraternity. Berlin 1932, pp. 368-370.
  • Frohberg-Lorenz-Spieß: The fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony in Bonn 1869-1969, Bonn 1969.
  • Dietrich Lenski (Ed.): Songs of the fraternity of the North Germans and Lower Saxony in Bonn, Bonn 1994.

Membership directory

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1013-1014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Schulze / Paul Ssymank: The German student body from the oldest time to the present, 1932, page 315
  2. ↑ Handbook of the German Landsmannschaft, 11th edition 1931, page 26
  3. ↑ See note 1, pages 316 and 317.
  4. ↑ Ernst-Günther Glienke: Civis academicus, 8th edition 2005/2006, page 392.
  5. ↑ Hartmut H. Jess: The Lexicon of Connections. Specimen Corporationum Cognitarum 2000 (as CD-Rom), Findex pages 380 and 381.
  6. ^ University archive Bonn, Philosophical Faculty, list of references Christian Schröder WS 1868/69 - WS 1869/1870.
  7. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 93.
  8. ^ Klaus Neuhaus: Student postcards from Münster. A vivid history of student life in Münster. Schernfeld 1993, p. 25.
  9. ↑ Paulgerhard Gladen: History of the student corporation associations, 1985, Volume II, p. 107
  10. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen: History of the student corporation associations, 1985, Vol II, pp Note 1, page 330th
  11. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen: History of the student corporation Associations, 1985, Volume II, See note 7, page 50th